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Clivedurdle · 05-12-2007, 02:18 AM

Why is xianity assumed to be monotheistic? What is the real difference between saints and gods? Once xianity had formalised the idea of a man becoming a god in Jesus, what about all those dead believers? Do they also not become gods like Jesus? Is there any real difference between the pagan or hindu gods and saints, except xianity manufactures new gods out of humans?

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Pope Benedict XVI has canonised Brazil's first native-born saint, Friar Galvao, to the cheers of up to a million faithful gathered in Sao Paulo.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6645555.stm

Solitary Man · 05-12-2007, 02:28 AM

Are chairs tables? Does Clivedurdle have a clue about what he is talking about? Is the moon made of cheese? Finally, are saints gods?

I think we all know the answers to these questions as obvious.

Clivedurdle · 05-12-2007, 08:45 AM

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A deity or god is a postulated preternatural or supernatural being, who is always of significant power, worshipped, thought holy, divine, or sacred, held in high regard, or respected by human beings.

Deities assume a variety of forms, but are frequently depicted as having human or animal form. Some faiths and traditions consider it blasphemous to imagine or depict the deity as having any concrete form. They are usually immortal. They are commonly assumed to have personalities and to possess consciousness, intellects, desires, and emotions much like humans. Such natural phenomena as lightning, floods, storms, other 'acts of God', and miracles are attributed to them, and they may be thought to be the authorities or controllers of every aspect of human life (such as birth or the afterlife). Some deities are asserted to be the directors of time and fate itself, to be the givers of human law and morality, to be the ultimate judges of human worth and behavior, and to be the designers and creators of the Earth or the universe. Some of these 'gods' have no power at all—they are simply worshipped.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deity

Why exactly are saints not a special manufactured form of a god?

Clivedurdle · 05-12-2007, 09:27 AM

http://www.godchecker.com/saints/index.php

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